Library: Policy

340:105-12-19. Supportive services

Issued 9-15-2021

Sub-grantees are responsible for supportive and follow-up services.

(1) Supportive services.  Sub-grantees:

(A) provide supportive services, as needed, to help participants participate in their community service assignment and to obtain and retain unsubsidized employment; and

(B) establish criteria to assess the need for supportive services and to determine when participants will receive supportive services, including after obtaining, unsubsidized employment.

(2) Follow-up.  To ensure continued successful employment and to verify mandated core performance measures, such as earnings and retention in unsubsidized employment for six months, SCSEP staff provides follow-up services within the first 180-calendar days of entry into unsubsidized employment.  Staff:

(A) determines if the job is an appropriate match for the participant and the employer;

(B) maintains contact with the participant within the first 180-calendar days of entry into unsubsidized employment in order to verify retention in unsubsidized employment for six months;

(C) documents wages earned by at least one of the methods in (i) – (iii) that are:

(i) a written statement from the employer;

(ii) pay stubs; or

(iii) detailed case notes indicating the name of the employer, the timeframe worked, and the wage; and

(D) may reconsider a participant for reenrollment when it is determined during the follow-up process that the former participant became unemployed.